Alec Meer of Rock Paper Shotgun wrote a polemic about why I shouldn’t have published Ten games businesses that are doomed That’s his prerogative, and I am currently working on a post explaining my rationale. But in...

When I wrote my post-mortem of RealTime Worlds, some people called me brave. I thought I was cowardly, given that I only expressed my concerns after the company went into administration. And it’s very easy to carp...

I know this happened over a month ago, but I’ve been trying to think about its implications. Band of Brothers, one of the biggest alliances in the Eve Online universe, was destroyed by arch-rivals GoonSwarm by the...

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